A/HRC/29/23 of such laws, employers may fire or refuse to hire or promote people simply because they are seen as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.97 Where laws do exist, they may be poorly applied. Workplace benefits available to heterosexual employees may be denied to their LGBT counterparts. Surveys indicate that discrimination and verbal and other forms of harassment in the workplace are commonplace. 98 4. Housing 59. LGBT persons may experience discrimination in access to housing as a result of unfair treatment by public and private landlords. Concerns include LGBT individuals and same-sex couples denied leases and evicted from public housing, 99 harassed by neighbours and forced out of their homes. 100 Many LGBT-identifying adolescents and young adults are thrown out of home by disapproving parents and end up on the streets, resulting in disproportionately high rates of homelessness among this group. A recent survey of 354 homeless support agencies in the United States suggested that some 40 per cent of homeless youth identify as LGBT, with family rejection the leading cause of homelessness among this group.101 5. Freedom of expression, association and assembly 60. United Nations human rights experts continue to highlight discriminatory restrictions on the rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly of LGBT persons and those defending their rights.102 Concerns include direct censorship, bans on dissemination of information and restrictions on advocacy. 103 61. LGBT organizations continue to have registration applications rejected, reviews delayed and legal registration revoked on discriminatory grounds.104 Permission to hold meetings, workshops and cultural events may be denied in an attempt to suppress political and artistic expression.105 Police officers have raided the offices of LGBT groups, arrested and harassed staff and volunteers, and confiscated materials, sometimes putting the privacy and safety of staff and supporters at risk.106 The offices of LGBT organizations have been targets of vandalism, burglary and arson,107 and such incidents are seldom investigated promptly.108 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 16 See A/69/318, para.17; and “Discrimination at work on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity: Results of pilot research” (GB.319/LILS/INF/1), International Labour Office, October 2013, pp. 2-3. EU LGBT Survey, EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (see footnote 50), p.17; April Guasp, “Gay in Britain: Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People’s Experiences and Expectations of Discrimination”, Stonewall, 2012, pp.3, 19. See A/69/274, para. 12. See A/HRC/19/53, paras. 50, 51, 63. See “Serving Our Youth”, Williams Institute, True Colors Fund and the Palette Fund, 2012, p. 3. See CCPR/C/GEO/CO/4, para. 8, A/HRC/26/30/Add.2, para. 77. See A/HRC/20/22/Add.2, para. 55, A/64/211, paras. 21-27. See A/69/307, para. 30. See A/HRC/23/34/Add.1, paras. 101-103. See A/HRC/22/53/Add.4, para. 162. A/HRC/25/74, MKD 2/2013; A/HRC/23/51, CRI 2/2012. See A/69/307, para. 86, A/HRC/22/53/Add. 4, para. 162, A/HRC/25/71, para. 55, A/HRC/26/52, para. 33.